Real Life Can be Messy

I recently shared a picture of chocolate chip cookies online, but it's only a small part of what our life has look like this last week. Our schedule was full and crazy.

Tuesday: Physical Therapy.

Wednesday: Bone Marrow Biopsy (OUCH)

Thursday: We got a call from our oldest daughter that her allergy blood work had come back and she has an alpha-gal allergy. She is now allergic to all mammal meats and by-products including medicine and health and beauty products.

Thursday night into Friday morning: We were woke up every 1 1/2 to 2 hours because our son was having a hard time managing his blood sugar. We had just put on a new Dexcom CGM sensor and while it had completed warm up and was giving us numbers they weren't accurate. He was treating lows that didn't actually exist and then chasing skyrocketing highs. By morning, after multiple calibrations, the Dexcom was working accurately.

Friday: Spent the day googling daughter's new allergy and and limped around the kitchen to put together a batch of lower sugar, lower carb chocolate chip cookies for our son who rarely eats any dessert.

Saturday: all of us slept in and tried to recover from the last few rough days. Then caught up on chores that got dropped over the last few days.

Sunday: took chemo meds and spent most of the day on the couch

Real life is messy and challenging and stressful.

So why do we share all this information? Is it because we want more readers or people to feel sorry for us? No, we couldn't care less about any of that. Honestly, we sometimes hate sharing our problems because it can sound like a whiny, complaining toddler (or like we’re cursed).  But the reason we write about our plumbing breaking or taking our kids to the emergency room or share stories about our ice maker catching fire is because we know that real life is messy and never what you see online.  

Everything you see online is pretty or trendy or stylish. Most people don’t share their struggles or mistakes or failures online because it isn’t pretty and it isn’t insta-worthy and it isn’t fun or easy. But, that isn’t going to stop us from sharing our next disaster or mess or problem, and we hope that you will do the same, share a life that is real.

It can be reassuring just to know that someone else is having the same struggles or walking the same path. Hearing other people’s stories can help us know that what we are going through is normal or maybe some tips for making thing better.

And as far as the world knows, I just baked cookies…